In the coming 2017 assembly election, Mohanlalganjlalganj will witness a keen contest among BSP, BJP and SP which currently holds the seat. BSP enjoys a slight edge in the assembly constituency. In 2014, though the BJP candidate from the Mohanlalganjlalganj Lok Sabha constituency, Kaushal Kishore had won the parliamentary seat by a margin of 1,45,416 by defeating his nearest BSP rival, R. K. Choudhary, the former had trailed behind the latter in the Mohanlalganjlalganj assembly segment by 2484 votes.